access with browser ok, but svn clients hang

Hi,

a colleague of mine has a strange problem accessing a svn repository (I am the one administering it): he can browse the repository using a web browser without problems, but all svn clients we tried hang. With my machine, everything works!

server side: SuSE Linux 9.1, svn 1.2.3, apache 2.0.54

client side: Windows XP prof. w/SP 2; svn clients tried:
TortoiseSVN 1.4.0, 1.3.5
commandline client 1.4.0, 1.3.2
jsvn 0.8

No matter what we tried -- repository browser, checkout -- the client hung. Once we noticed that a former try must have checked out something, but we were by no means able to do something useful (commit a new file, update).

The repository is accessed via HTTP; on /my/ machine (similar OS, TortoiseSVN 1.3.5) it works OK using his Id, so it shouldn't be a server configuration error nor a user access problem. Simple apache dav setup:

<Location /xxx>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "XXX"
    AuthUserFile "/srv/www/passwd"
    AuthGroupFile "/srv/www/group"
    Require group xxx
</Location>

<Location /xxx/svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNPath /srv/svn/xxx
</Location>

(base authentication; KeepAlive is On)

The repository contains just a few directories and test files for now; other repositories on the same server work ok with thousands of files and revisions (well, I don't know whether they would work for him because he has no access there).

Any thoughts, hints, ideas anyone? We have spent several hours now and run out of ideas...

TIA for any help!

-- 
Cheers,
Tobias
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